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Spotlight | Africa, China
Macron and Biden want to force China to play ball on African debt

On December 30, 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron took part in a videoconference bringing together his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and European representatives. © Sébastien Nogier/ Pool/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

Following the explosion in African countries' public debt caused by Covid, the European Union and the United States want to force China to take part in the collective rescheduling process organised by the G20 and the Paris Club.

Subscribers only Politics

Central Africa

Central Africa
AfDB gives scathing review of ECCAS efficacy

The African Development Bank has published a brutal assessment of way the Economic Community of Central African States, its partner on numerous infrastructure projects, is being run.

Free access Infrastructure, Business

Congo
Thierry Lauriol and Kevin Grossmann will defend Congo against Sundance and Equatorial

The Congolese state has chosen French lawyers Thierry Lauriol of law firm Jeantet and Kevin Grossmann to represent it in its dispute with the two mining companies, which are seeking compensation after having been deprived of their iron ore mining permits.

Subscribers only Mining

DRC
US's Relyant offers demining services to United Nations

Already active on several fronts in Africa, Relyant Global has taken a shot at a contract to help UNMAS and MONUSCO secure roads in the DRC.

Subscribers only Defence, Business

West Africa

Nigeria
ENI picks Bulgarian ex-foreign minister as its arbiter in dispute with NNPC over OPL 245

Chosen by the Italian major, former diplomat Stanimir Alexandrov is the first appointment to a tribunal that will arbitrate ENI's dispute with the Nigerian state over OPL 245.

Subscribers only Energy

Benin
Talon readies to sell Seme and resume exploration with Oranto

With a high chance he will be serving a second term come April, President Patrice Talon at last has the legislation in place to see oil firms return to the country.

Subscribers only Energy

Guinea-Bissau
Embaló wants to declare war on parliament

The president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló. © Antonio Cotrim/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Now that he no longer has a two-thirds majority in the National People's Assembly, President Umaro Sissoco Embaló cannot carry out his planned constitutional reform. He has threatened to dissolve the assembly, raising fears that this could provoke a political crisis just one year after his own highly contested election as president.

Subscribers only Politics

Eastern Africa and the Horn

Kenya
Ruto stumbles in Kenyatta's backyard

MP Alice Wahome and Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto in November 2019. © Inua Mama Kenya/Facebook

By failing to appoint anyone from Central Province to the leadership of his new UDA party, the deputy president risks alienating voters in a region that's set to play a pivotal role in next year's election.

Subscribers only Politics

Southern Africa and islands

Botswana
De Beers hopes to sparkle in the fight against Covid-19

The Bagaka Ba Rona program launched by De Beers and the Government of Botswana. © BWgovernment/Facebook

De Beers is killing two birds with one stone by gifting diamonds to Botswanan healthcare workers: the giveaway boosts the company's image in Botswana, its biggest sources of gems, and should help put it in President Masisi's good books, as negotiations on renewing its diamond sales contract have been ensuing for over a year.

Subscribers only Mining

South Africa
Offshore tax specialists' mixed reaction to end of ban on loop structures

With "loop structures" no longer illegal in South Africa as of 1 January, the country's major law firms want to regularise their clients' offshore arrangements.

Subscribers only Finance, Business

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